He never got to enjoy the fruit of his labor because they had to put him away in 1913 and he spent seventeen years in the state insane asylum believing he was a child and it was actually May 3, 1872.

所以最终，他非但没能尝到自己预言成功的甜头，反而是在1913年被人送进了州立疯人院，并在那里度过了余生的十七年。 在这十七年里，他一直觉得自己是个小孩，并且坚信每一天都是1872年5月3日。

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But the incident does reminds me of the conversation about asylum we had many many years ago.

但这确实让俺想起了多年前关于疯人院的讨论。

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Having sought asylum in the West for many years, they were eventually granted it.

他们最终获得了在西方寻求多年的避难权。

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By 1999, the backlog of cases reached 125, 000, which meant that the immigration service was utterly unable to cope with unprecedented numbers of asylum claimants in the following three years.

ECONOMIST: IMMIGRATION

Instead of pointing to the great benefits of immigration population growth is responsible for about two-fifths of the increase in real GDP in the past 40 years the two parties pander shamelessly to xenophobic fears about asylum-seekers washing up in boats.

ECONOMIST: Australia's promise

He now has the status of asylum seeker though it could be years before his claim is ever processed.

BBC: Greece asylum: Journey through a broken system